These are the feminist pioneers receiving their medical degrees 150 years after they enrolled

The feminists who made up the Edinburgh Seven have finally been rewarded posthumous degrees 150 years after they first started studying.

Famously, the women were prevented from graduating and qualifying as doctors because of the discrimination they faced at the hands of the university and their male peers – but these weren’t the only problems the women faced during their time at the university.Sophia Jex-Blake, the leader of the seven, began the push to allow women to be admitted to Edinburgh’s medical school when she wrote to the dean of the medical faculty asking whether she could attend lectures.

The Surgeons’ Hall Riot in 1870, which saw protesters surround and disrupt the seven from taking an anatomy exam, saw a flood of support for the women in the face of such incredible discrimination. But despite public support the university continued to discriminate, and four years later, the seven were rejected from graduating.

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